Do outside interventions in conflict-affected areas do any good? Do they fuel the conflict further? Can donor agencies and NGO’s plan their intervention in such a way as not to become an actor in the conflict themselves? What is the space in which the development and humanitarian aid community...

Program: - Extensive and intensive margin in employment recovery following a financial crisis, - Behavioural macroeconomics. Some applications, - Decomposing the business cycle: the relative importance of domestic and common shocks within the euro area, - Adaptive Learning and the Transmission...

The aim of this two-day workshop is to bring together researchers working on topics in Empirical Macroeconomics to present and discuss their ongoing research. We invite contributions related to Monetary and Fiscal Policy, Business Cycle Analysis or International Macroeconomics.

The Five Presidents’ Report of 2015 has called for a macroeconomic stabiliser at the EMU level that would be capable of dealing with asymmetric shocks. A European unemployment benefits scheme (EUBS) is one potential stabilisation mechanism, although other proposals for devising risk-sharing...

This conference will explore the potential impact on different member states via presentations and panel debates with researchers and policymakers. The ensuing discussion should allow us to clearly distinguish between areas with common grounds in the negotiations from areas where opinions and...